April’s goldilocks

While I jogged this morning, fighting gravity up the hills while my left sock drooped into my shoe, sweat dripped down my back, and my brain took inventory that “nothing hurts yet,” I felt the glory of an April day in every sense.

I smelled sweet honeysuckle. I heard crazy cicadas. I watched the new green of baby leaves against a blue sky, and the road rolling by under my feet as I tried not to crush random cicadas struggling on their backs. A breeze stirred the air, while the morning sun warmed my skin, in a perfect spring balance. Just right. Like a caramel and fudge banana split under a blanket of homemade whipped cream.

It was a diamond of a day.

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  1. Ode To Inbox                                                         Words by Dale 4/1/34

    Oh, the Inbox haphazardly in such disarray

    More arrive each-and-every single day

    Primary, Promotions, Social, Updates

    Labels and folders verily accumulate

    Issuant emails more arrive everyday

    So many promotions no attention do I pay

    Dispatched to folders labeled so much trash

    As are deleted, reappearing more the fast

    Keeping up seems the impossible task

    News goes unread and deadlines pass

    The follow-up notices over run their date

    Efficacies and orders become second rate

    Pursuit of the empty, zero be my goal

    the bottom of this, never to see bowl

    Friends wonder is he still, still alive

    Haven’t heard from him, did he survive

    Social wants me to join

    Update askes me to purloin

    No labels want to label me

    Primaries invite me to see

    Oh, to gang select and then delete

    T’would be such the empowering feat

    Like with a witch’s wand to be waved

    Be gone all emails,

    hours of the day t’would be  saved. 

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